the end.

thankyou to those who tried. hopefully karma will be kind to you

dirty hacks...

cause more problems than they are worth. I feel a major rewrite in my waters... :(

How odd...

Today has been a strange day. Doctors appointment was odd, saw a doc I'd never seen before and she certainly had a different approach but I didn't really get a chance to get across how I really felt. And how I feel at the moment is, to be honest, not great. This afternoon was the first time I'd felt really properly depressed in some weeks. Thankfully it's mostly passed but I generally just feel a bit sad. Still no sign of the shoe!

A little update

(take 2 since facebook decided to make my first version mysteriously disappear!)

Firstly thank you to all of you who have given me words of encouragement/support over the past few days, I've been having a pretty rough time and it's always nice to know people still care!!!

Following from several meetings with my tutor, doctor and the preclinical dean they have decided that I'm not medically fit to sit my exams/ do my iDSE and so they will let me sit them in September and do some sort of alternative assessment for my DSE. This is a lot better than what I previously was considering which was either struggling thru these exams and failing/going crazy or completely dropping out. This solution gives me some time to sort my head out without burning too many bridges. I've come to realise that when I suspended last year I didn't really sort myself out, I just got pumped full of (very, very groovy) drugs and then went home and got looked after for a few months. Yeah, this got me stable but I didn't really learn how to manage my own life/work/health!

So over the next couple of months I need to find myself something independent to do which will provide me with challenges to overcome under my own steam but still won't be too stressful (suggestions on a postcard/wall post plz).

Hopefully I can finally kick this thing in the arse!

Some good news and a quick software review!

So my phone is back from repair! Well, actually a completely new phone is now mine, since the other one's touch screen was FUBAR. Which is nice, since it was a little scratched and dinted. But, this comes to the problem of transferring all one's contacts, messages and documents across. Thankfully there is a fab little bit of software called backup manager 4 from Czech company Sunnysoft. This backed all of the above to an SD card with minimal fuss (apart from needing active sync to install - thank god for housemates and their windows laptops), and then restored it to the new machine with no problems whatsoever (it even restored my desktop background, menu entries, shortcuts and custom hardware button assignments!!). All of the above was done under the 7 day trial period, but I'm seriously considering splashing out on the mere tenner it costs to buy!

Now to get the wifi card working and tomtom installed (if that gps ever bloofy turns up...)

Dodgy weed warning

From indimedia via dogbomb. There is increasing evidence of skunk being contaminated with small beads of silica or glass to give the impression of THC crystals and increased weight. Keep your eyes open, guys.

Intelligence Returns to Kansas...

...as their school board gives "intelligent" design the boot! From el reg . This is fantastic news and i'm sure everyone over at venganza will be delighted. Unfortunately this also means the campaign to get pastafarianism taught in schools has been put back a further step :(